School Improvement Agenda - 12/6/13

Room 7 

7:30 

Reshare School Improvement Plan for 2013-14 (handout)

Family Literacy Night

Ideas from June 2013:

- What:  Classroom presentations on curriculum and how curriculum meets needs of above/at/below grade level?

- Opening session - define literacy, share format, writing with purpose sharing?  morning meeting?

- Conference style - offer sessions/parents pick and choose - What should be offered?

- Who:  All Mitchell Families -  How to make this a family event and still meaningful?

- When:  When would make sense?

Announcements:

- Mitchell Family LIteracy Fund

- Responsive Classroom Level 1 training

- After school/ weekend opportunities

- Communication plan - eNotes/ Monthly newsletter

Tentative meeting dates for this year:

November 22

December 13
January 24
February 14
March 14
April 25
May 16
June 6

School Improvement Team - Tomorrow @ 7:30

Hello Mitchell SIT,

See you tomorrow morning for School Improvement Team meeting at Mitchell, 7:30

Agenda:
- Share 2013-14 School Improvement Plan - look for omissions
- Define what we hope for from Family Literacy Night - and when we hope to have it.

Regrets only . . . :-)

Kevin

SIT Agenda for Friday, May 17

See you at 7:30!

There are quite a few things to share and/or discuss:
- Update SIT planning for 2013-14
- Update building plans for next year
- Share about Bryant Community Center visit
- Share about M-FLI, a recently developed initiative about summer reading

Next steps

As always, thank you for your input and commitment to our SIT.
Kevin

School Improvement Team - Rescheduled to 5/17

Dear Mitchell SIT,

I need to reschedule our meeting from 5/10 to 5/17.

I hope you will still be able to meet. At the next meeting, I anticipate discussing/updating the following topics:

1. Bryant Community Center visit
2. 2013-14 School Improvement Plan - input

Again, I hope you'll still be able to meet next week.

Kevin

Doodle: Mitchell SIT Visit to Bryant Community Center

Hi Mitchell SIT,

Click the link below to help choose which day we visit the Bryant Community Center.

http://www.doodle.com/sbhnbqkwvvbpfguw

I coordinated these dates with Derrick at the Bryant CC, and I'm hoping many of you can join in the fun.

Thanks.
Kevin

Agenda - 4/8/13 @ 7:30

Updates  (5 minutes)
- Summer Bridge
- Community Center visit?
- Education Yes!
- Budget - 2013-14

Literacy Night Brainstormmg! (~30+ minutes)

Re: DRAFT Ed. Yes Report for Mitchell - Input Welcomed

Good afternoon Mitchell School Improvement Team and Staff, 

I have officially submitted the Education Yes! report for Mitchell for 2012-13.  For those who were able to look it over and give feedback, I appreciate it.  Your feedback was factored into the report.

In case you didn't have time to look it over as much as you wanted, I thought I should share some information with you:

Strengths in areas connected to:

Strand 5 - Data and Information Management with a score of 4 out of 4 

- our compilation of data in multiple formats and our use of the Achievement Team Database factors in here.

Strand 3 - Personnel Qualifications and Professional Learning - average sore of about 3.8 out of 4

- Excellent staff, excellent use of time in helping each other be the best we can be 

Our relative weaknesses are connected to:

Strand 1which focuses on curriculum and instruction with an average score of 3.4 out of 4.  The points of leverage in this section include:

- fidelity of instruction - so being the best teachers we can be around our research based practices - guided reading, interactive read alouds, workshop methods, consistent phonics implementation

- a systematic use of formative achievement data in defined teams (think data teams).  Our PD work in the use of NWEA data for formative assessments is a step in the right direction for sure.

PLEASE NOTE:  please know a relative weakness does not mean we are doing poorly in that area.  We clearly have strengths within all areas of Education Yes!

I hope this email helps to share some of the important information about this report.

If you have questions, please don't hesitate.  

Sincerely,

Kevin